Our reading challenge for the day is Acts 1-5. I’ll hit a few highlights. You make comments too and fill in the gaps. What strikes you as specially significant?
In those first five chapters of Acts we see that the Lord is true to his word. He says that he will make the disciples witnesses. And that is exactly what he does. The believers go about their natural business, but they are transformed by the Holy Spirit so that they are witnesses to Christ. It is not a matter of them going and deciding to be witnesses. In fact, when Jesus tells the disciples in Acts 1:8 that they will be witnesses, he is not making a command. The verb is indicative. It describes what they are, rather than commanding them what to do.
How do we see ourselves, followers of Jesus, being made into witnesses? What do people see? Do they see Jesus in us? Or do we try to hide him? The disciples who were used by the Holy Spirit to turn their world upside down were simply being the people they were created to be. May the Lord use us the same way.
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